Benjamin Rodker

Sosa: 1

Parents

Ancestors

Samuel Rodker †1881   Simma Grunlen †1922   Hyman Smithson 1858-1921   Devorah x 1868-1937
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Isaac Rodker 1877-1943   Mary Smithson 1887-1945
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Benjamin Rodker 1917-1943

  Siblings



Notes

PROFESSION: Waiter in Dorchester Hotel (LR)

BIRTH: 23th of Iyar month, Tuesday, half past two at night (diary)
Diary

Ben was on a training exercise in and around the Dover (Kent) area. There had been an air raid during which a bomb / land mine had been dropped that had produced a huge crater on landing but had not exploded. Ben was the first man into the crater when the bomb exploded. The explosion killed Ben; the second man into the crater lost his legs.

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